That's great news. It used to be 21 a day. It does sound like a lot unless you look at it statistically, the suicide rate for veterans is only a little higher than the suicide rate for the general population. When they were making a bid deal about the 21 a day it seemed like veterans must be committing suicide at many times the rate of civilians but it was only like 20% higher. This is not to say the VA could not do better.
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It is many times higher than the general population.
Exactly how many times higher?
Crickets. That's all you'll hear. They won't bother to fact check.
Males in general have a much higher suicide rate
Men are always expected to never fall apart, being a man means being the main adversary against all of life's ills, being single all my life I can attest to what a challenge that kind of expectation can be, for a man falling short isn't consider acceptable to society. I have heard/known men in my life who lost everything for a number of reasons and couldn't face that inevitability of starting over and committed suicide.
yup and that was before men started being portrayed as vile buffoons.